Anthropology of Animation

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Explores anthropologically the concept of animation--the attribution of human agency and life to nonhumans or media forms that create such an "illusion of life"--covering animated nonhumans from religious images, dolls, puppets, automatons, and robots to animated characters and brand mascots across different animated media (cel animation, rotoscopy, stop-motion, puppetry). Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.